Poster child: A boy holds a Nelson Mandela election placard in 1994 in Lindelani, outside Durban. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images
As we head to the voting stations this week and prepare to honour the youth of the Sharpeville Massacre next month, I have found myself reflecting on what freedom means and how we got here.
On 27 April 1994 nearly 20 million South Africans cast their vote, most for the very first time, a right denied to the majority of the population until that monumental day. Every South African who voted on what we now…
